“This is a political document intended to frighten Americans into believing that any abnormal weather experience is the direct result of CO2 emissions,” Smith said after the White House released its 840-page National Climate Assessment. “It's disappointing that the Obama administration feels compelled to stretch the truth in order to drum up support for more costly and unnecessary regulations and subsidies.”

Like a lot of other conservatives, Smith has been quick to dis climate change. Effete liberals, the ones with carbon footprints that would make Big Foot proud, mock him for this and then lecture the rest of us.

But this is only because they fail to see the benefits of a warming planet.

This study, funded in part by The Heartland Institute, is a weighty counter to the alarmists with the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

You know, the people who predicted a global food shortage, flooding, drought and even claim a 95 percent certainty that humans are causing global warming. Pshaw.

Obviously, this is not the full picture. In fact, it's just a picture that happens to be painted by leftist scientists taking part in a global conspiracy.

Talk about overheated!

As “Climate Change Reconsidered II” notes, global warming isn't caused by people. But even if it were, it would still be good for people.

“A modest warming of the planet will result in a net reduction of human mortality from temperature-related events,” the report says. “More lives are saved by global warming via the amelioration of cold-related deaths than those lost under excessive heat.”

Translation: it's only sunny days ahead. Even in Minnesota — and they are stuck with the Timberwolves. Besides, should you overheat and die, there will be better flowers at your funeral.

“Rising CO2 enables plants to produce more and larger flowers,” the report says.

That doesn't sound so bad.

These benefits come in addition to the melting of the West Antarctica ice sheet — clearly, a bigger game changer in electoral politics than the Hispanic vote. Global warming is believed to have helped push the ice sheet past the tipping point of no return. It will literally re-shape the map.

“This is really happening,” NASA's Thomas P. Wagner said in The New York Times. “There's nothing to stop it now. But you are still limited by the physics of how fast the ice can flow.”

Look, even the best political strategies have their challenges. But we can probably speed this thing up.